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Intro 1
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Verse 1
my order I give,
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You Jews can go back to your home
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To build your holy temple again
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In the land of Palestine.
Verse 2
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o'er the hot rocky roads
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Back to Eretz Yisroel's land
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We worked with plow and rake and hoe
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And we blessed the works
of our hands
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My name is Ezra the Teacher man
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I brought my scroll book along
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I brought my flock to Yisroel
From that land called Babylon
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I'll read you my Talmud Torah
book
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And the prophet's dreams to you
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And you'll be fertile and multiply
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If you keep your Torah true
Verse 5
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My name is Alexander the Great
More than half of this wide world
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I'm wrapped on my bed here to die
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As the King of Syria and Palestine
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Antiochus the Fourth, you'll stand
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To kill the Jews if they refuse
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To worship our idols and gods
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My name is Hannah, my first born son
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Now stands before this king
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Guilty of keeping the Sabbath laws
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By the soldiers I see him slain
Verse 8
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It's one by one my seven sons
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In front of my eyes cut down
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For keeping to the Torah laws
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I pay with my warm blood now
Verse 9
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My name is Mattathias, I've
got five sons
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In Modin City we dwell
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They tried to make me bow
down to their gods
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Two of the King's flun
Verse 10
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A hundred or more who'll fight
to be Jews
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Did come to these hills with me
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On my death bed your leader
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'Tis Judah, the Macabee
Verse 11
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My name is Judah, the Macabee
By the name of the hammer
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I'm called
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We'll pray to God before every fight
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Till all of our enemies fall
Appolonius, the Governor, this day I killed
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And his
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Some few of his soldiers
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run away in the wind
But most we've dropped dead
Verse 13
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Syron is my name, from Syria came
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To destroy that fool Macabee
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My army was great, his army was small
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But he somehow did win over me
Verse 14
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To deliver the many to the hands of his few
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For God this is no trick at all
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In a few short hours my army did break
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And we flooded this valley with blood
Verse 15
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My name is Lysias, I dreamed up a plan
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To burn the Jews tents as they slept
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When I got there, their tents were all bare
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And the Macabee's army had left
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He stormed my own camp as
my soldiers did sleep
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And he killed several thousand in fear
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my horsemen, my footsoldiers, all
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Judah hammered them down from the rear
Verse 17
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My name is Jerusalem
where Judah came back
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To build up my Temple once more
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To cut down the weeds and thorny brush
Verse 18
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Whole stones, whole stones,
we'll build and pray
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To God as a wholehearted Jew
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God's love the hateful many did place
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In the hands of a God loving few
Verse 19
a little oil jug
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Just enough for the lamps for one night
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That one little jug burned Eight whole
days
And it kept our new
temple in light
Verse 20
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Eight candles we'll burn and
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Every New Year that comes and goes
We'll think of the many in the hands
of the few
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And thank God we are seeds of the Jews
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